Buscher v. Boning

Opinion of the Court by

DUFFY, J.

This workers’ compensation case arose from a 1996 motor vehicle collision between vehicles operated by Plaintiff-Appellee Esther J. Buscher and Defendant-Appellant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant Duane S. Boning. At the time of the collision, Buscher was driving within the course and scope of her employment with Defendant-Appellee State of Hawai'i. Buscher made a claim for workers’ compensation benefits to the State and sued Boning in Civil No. 97-237K. Buscher and Boning agreed to settle the case for Boning’s policy limits of $125,000.00, and the case was…